Wei Liucheng ( born August 1946) is a Chinese businessman and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. He is the former Governor and Communist Party Secretary of

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

province. In August 2011, Wei became one of the deputy chairs of the Committee on the Economy and Finance in the

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Biography

Born in

Biyang County Biyang County () is a county of Zhumadian city in southern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders Queshan to the east, Tongbai to the north, Tanghe to the west, Luohe to the north, Sheqi and Nanyang Nanyang is the romanization o ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

, Wei graduated from Beijing Petroleum Institute then worked in China's

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for more than 30 years. In 1982 he joined the

China National Offshore Oil Corporation China National Offshore Oil Corporation, or CNOOC Group (Chinese: 中国海洋石油总公司 Pinyin: ''Zhōngguó Háiyáng Shíyóu Zǒnggōngsī''), is one of the largest national oil companies in China, and the third-largest national oil c ...

and in 1998 was appointed

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. Wei moved to

in October 2003, and was appointed

Governor of Hainan The politics of Hainan Province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China. The Governor of Hainan is the highest-ranking official in the People's Govern ...

in February 2004. He served in that position until February 2007 when he was appointed as secretary of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the

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(CPC) Committee. He was re-elected by the Hainan People's Congress on January 29, 2008. Wei was an alternate member of 16th CPC Central Committee, and is a current member of 17th Central Committee.Biography of Wei Liucheng
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Living people 1946 births Governors of Hainan Politicians from Zhumadian People's Republic of China politicians from Henan {{China-politician-stub